sovay: (I Claudius)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2009-04-11 03:16 am

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land

Has anyone ever written a response to Kipling's "Mandalay"—either parodic or straight—from the perspective of Supayalat, the "Burma girl"? It seems inconceivable to me that someone should not have; the poem has been around since 1892 and it's famous. But I don't know whose collected poems I should be looking in. Friendlist?

"One gets used to the flying fishes, but that bloody dawn coming up like thunder is driving me crackers."
—Charles Addams (1977)

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2009-04-12 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Welks.

I don't reckon you could be the first to think of it, either. But I suppose it's possible that nobody has actually written it, or put it into print.

In which case you could be the first, yes?